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William Eaton

I am getting rich against my own inclination.

Eaton, who was the American consul to Tunis during the years leading up to the Barbary War, decided along with his fellow consul, James Cathcart, to use their diplomatic leverage to their benefit by getting involved in Tunisian trade.

Abu Muhammad Hammuda Pasha

You consult your honor; I my interest.

Already receiving tribute for American immunity from the Barbary pirates, the Bey (provincial governor) added a provision to the tribute treaty requiring the Americans to give a barrel of gunpowder for every cannon shot fired in salute of arriving American ships. The American consuls objected saying it insulted their country’s honor:

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James Leander Cathcart

A Barbary Consul had to put up with humiliation, isolation, threats to life and limb and every species of insolence & degradation that a fertile-brained Mohammetan can invent to render the life of a Christian superlatively miserable … one moment menaced with change, the next with death & damnation in a state of constant vigilance, concern & complexity

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Born: June 1, 1767
Died: October 6, 1843
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James Leander Cathcart was a diplomat, slave, and sailor. He is notable for his narrative as a slave in Algiers for eleven years.

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